Pope Francis on Tuesday praised humility as opposed to a "religion of maquillage" in a homily at Mass at the Casa Santa Marta guesthouse where he resides.
"Jesus asks us to do good with humility, shying away from appearance, from 'pretending' to do something", the pontiff said in his sermon commemorating St John XXIII, excerpts of which were broadcast by Vatican Radio.
The pontiff also quoted a passage in the Gospel in which Jesus asks to pray without appearing and hailed "that internal freedom, that freedom to do good without showing it, without tooting a horn because the road to true religion is the same road of Jesus: humility, humiliation".
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